Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.